Washington's THAAD muscle flexing unmasks anxiety over declining hegemony
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BEIJING -- The controversial deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system on the Korean Peninsula yet again betrayed Washington's deep-rooted Cold War mentality and its petty anxiety over the United States' declining global hegemony. The Republic of Korea (ROK) last month announced plans for...